Monday, 10 March 2014

When White Turns To Gold

We uncovered the old sandstone trough, silted up in the brook when we moved down here. It used to feed a bricked pipe which provided the drinking water for the house. It now stands outside the back door. I plant it up with bulbs and things in the Autumn. This year there's an explosion of blue crocus which must have lain dormant in one corner of it and have suddenly appeared. I don't even remember planting them but they're a whole little bundle of joy.
It's been a bit of a hard one, this winter. We've managed to clear two bays of the tattered bits of plastic from the poly tunnel and it's already to go to the Recycle Centre tomorrow. Trying to free it from where we buried it all underneath waterlogged soil and stones has been hard graft to say the least. Not even sure whether I want to put another sheet over it, but then, the early veggies are something else. So maybe.

The weather's been lovely today. Clumps of wild daffodils are already in bud above the stream on the Mill Bank.

And you can see where the sheep have been through the barbed wire.

Masses of celandines all along the hedgerow.

Just heard on tonight's news that UK's Kelly Gallagher's won gold in the Paralympics in Sochi. She is visually impaired and to rely on her team mate, Charlotte Evans to guide her down the slope. So much so that she was only able to distinguish Charlotte's orange jacket and hear her instructions through her headset - travelling at 92 km, made it down to the bottom in 1 minute, 28.72 seconds. Can you imagine it! With all the other horrible news going on at the moment, I think it's just fantastic.

Good news is always so welcome especially when it involves someone overcoming obstacles to reach their dream.

I see spring has definitely come to your part of the world, Molly. How lucky you are. We are expecting another snowstorm tomorrow even though our temps are rising. It is nice though, that I get to virtually experience spring through your lovely pictures.

Wonderful to Spring on the way, isn't it? What a lovely surprise to discover those crocuses (or should that be crocus?). Our garden has daffodils coming into bloom and the promise of blubells -- and lots of buds on the trees and bushes!

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Quotes I Like

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its dream ......Unknown

When you know that you don't know what you think you knew, then you will learn to listen to those who know what you don't know. You know.

When you come to the edge of all that you know you must believe two things: There will be earth upon which to stand, or you will be given wings to fly......Unknown

We all have to die and if God were to allow us all to die in our beds, we would have to sleep standing up .....'Ice Road Truckers'

The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results .....Albert Einstein

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them........Thomas Merton

The Blessings of Cancer - It is better to add life to your years than to add years to your life. God can turn anything for His good. -

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers .......unknown

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - so does a hard boiled egg......Countryman

Our life is God's gift to us; what we make of it is our gift to God ..........Frank Schober

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live .....Dorothy Thompson

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody ..... Mother Teresa

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed......Corita Kent

Learn to love yourself - the world will take you at your own estimate .......unknown

It'll all work out in the end. If it doesn't - it isn't the end' from the film 'Marigold Hotel'

God has a plan and keeps His finger on each of our pulses. He wants us to keep to His plan and to see each one of us in heaven.....Rick, Ice Road Truckers

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered and there was no-one there .....Unknown

Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can fully share its joy. Proverbs 14 v 10

Bravery is an ignorance of consequences......Kate Silverton on white water rafting

About Me

I live right on the border between England and Wales. The brook along the edge of our garden forms the boundary. So If you put a table across the brook and sat either end you would be dining in two different countries at once. I have only moved a 30 mile radius in my entire life until July 2013 when we went on a fabulous cruise. Now I've added travelling to my interests - it's never too late.